The King’s College Shutters Classes, But Says It Is Not Closing
The New York City school is beginning layoffs of staff and faculty. It was in a financial crisis and lost its accreditation.
Writing as a Christian Means Joining a Banquet, Not a Battle
How we can use our words to feed each other rather than destroy each other.
A Circuitous Route
Edmund de Waal’s love-affair with porcelain.
Racing with Chariots
The many lives of “Ben-Hur.”
What Is America’s Legacy?
How Hamilton reimagines the Founding.
Trollope’s Professions
How the novelist’s “Autobiography” has been misread.
Baseball Review 2016, Part 2
Auguries and predictions (with an eye to 1983).
The Critics’ Roundup: ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and ‘Dig’
Critics weigh in on an aptly-named film and an intriguing start to a “spiritual procedural.”
Cinderella
When it comes to remaking classics, Disney shouldn’t try so hard.
The Good Ministers of the Silver Screen
Sure, there are badly-written clergy at TV and the movies. But it’s the good ones that tell us something about what it is to be a minister.